It is not true, as reported in the national press yesterday, DR1 included, that Temistocles Montas has been excluded from the Central Committee of the Partido de la Liberacion Dominicana. As part of reorganization efforts to better position itself for the 2002 and 2004 elections, the Party has submitted central committee members approval to the vote of its 33,000 membership. As per the first bulletin issued by the political organization, with about half of the votes already counted, Montas is among the 24 most voted members, that received 50% of the vote and will not have to go to the second round vote. The most voted are Leonel Fernandez, Danilo Medina, Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal, Joaquin Bido Medina, all with 75% of the vote. Others are Lidio Cadet, Felix (Felucho) Jimenez, Euclides Gutierrez, Norge Botello, Alejandrina German, Franklin Almeyda, Rafael Alburquerque, Jose Tomas Perez, Reynaldo Pared Perez, Rafael Kasse Acta, Eduardo Selman, Cesar Pina Toribio, Roberto Salcedo, Miguel Cocco, Julian Serulle, Danilo Diaz, Gladys Gutierrez, Francisco Dominguez Brito, Temistocles Montas, among others. Subsidy was bad in past government, good in present Former Presidente Leonel Fernandez said that it makes no sense that the present government criticize his government’s Programa de Evaluacion Minima de Empleo (PEME) when it announces a similar welfare system, the RD$300 cash subsidy to families with children in school. Fernandez spoke during the opening of the Petroleum and its Effects on the Economy and Development sponsored by his Fundacion Global Democracia y Desarrollo organization at the Salon Anacaona of the Hotel Jaragua. The forum continues today.
